JCherry Photography

Target Life

2010-05-18T10:51:00.000-07:00

Target Life from Jessica Cherry on Vimeo.

This is my final capstone project. I shot the entire thing with the Olympus PEN E-PL1. Hope you enjoy!

Beef Day

2010-04-28T10:42:00.000-07:00

One of the organizations on campus was having a beef event and they brought a cow to Lowry Mall. So naturally DK and I had to go check it out. Here's some photos and there might be a video to come. These were taken with an Olympus E-PL1.

And then of course DK had to buy Laura a shirt.

My Sister's Circus

2010-03-12T10:32:00.000-08:00

Calin, David and I finally ventured into My Sister's Circus on Wednesday to see what kind of place it really was. It turned out to be pretty harmless, except for this clown.

The Becky Look

2010-03-12T10:06:00.001-08:00

Laura's giving me the "Becky Look." That was the face Laura got from her sister when she would annoy her.

5 Points of View: Edit 1

2010-02-26T09:47:00.001-08:00

So here's edit number 1 for my 5 points of view project. Consider the amount of time I had with Sam I think I captured a decent variety of his daily life. One thing I really like is that he had the same hat on every time I saw him, which at first was a challenge, but I think it added a nice continuity to all the frames in the end. I thought I would wait to add captions until I have the edit nailed down.

Project Proposal

2010-02-23T10:36:00.000-08:00

I am doing my 5 perspectives on freshman photo-j student Sam Gause. This feels a little like déjà vu because in my fundamentals class I did a story on Dann Wunderlich who was a freshman, living in McDavid that chose photojournalism after injuring himself playing football. Sam is a freshman living in McDavid that chose photojournalism after injuring himself playing baseball. He's from Phoenix, AZ and says he's always been an artistic kid. He started taking photo classes in high school, which peaked his interest. He met his two best friends this school year from his dorm. He's working for the Maneater, among his classes he's taking Spanish, which he says is the most challenging class for him. I'm going to show the different aspects of his day. Interviewing people for stories, hanging out with his friends, going running, working on homework and then I was going to shoot him in his fundamentals class Wednesday morning.

Catching up

2010-02-22T12:55:00.000-08:00

I know I haven't posted in awhile so here is my catch up post. This first picture is from the Missouri Grand Prix we hosted last weekend.

Houston we have a problem...Calin sorts out POYi issues.

When I'm at POYi I like to get on the webcast because I like to see what people are saying about the pictures. DK made fun of me.

I attempted to do a project about Valentine's day, but my dislike for the holiday got the better of me. I title this "The Aftermath"

I was on my way to work and realized I didn't have a picture for the day so I shot this while getting into my car. Plus this was the first day in forever that we didn't have overcast skies. The birds were happy.

I ran into my friend Corey on my way to class and took a quick portrait of him.

Walking to class

2010-02-12T09:13:00.000-08:00

Colleen on a snowy day. I know I said I don't do a lot of black and white, but I think I'm liking it better with snow pictures.

Sledding!

2010-02-11T19:27:00.001-08:00

So I decided to investigate the sledding situation at Stephen's Park. Here are two of the shots I got:

This little boy was laying at the bottom of the hill for ten minutes like this and I finally went down and asked if he was ok. He said he was too tired to carry his sled up the hill so I carried it for him and then his mom got mad that he was making me carry it. He was cute :)

Nature Hike

2010-02-11T19:20:00.000-08:00

I went on a hike in the snow with my cold, which was probably a bad idea, and I got this:

Snowy Day in Columbia

2010-02-11T17:11:00.000-08:00

So this is my Hitt Street Garage shot. It was an overcast day, but still pretty with the snow. I usually don't do black and white but I liked the nostalgic feeling I get from this.

Haiti relief

2010-02-08T11:45:00.000-08:00

I have a caption for this, but I'm not sure where it is at the current moment. This was the UN student fundraiser for Haiti relief. The volunteer was giving out mint chocolates to students when they donated money or wrote a message for people effected by the earthquake. It was a cold day in CoMo and they were out there for at least 8 hours, which was really impressive.

Thursday night games!

2010-02-08T11:35:00.000-08:00

This is a photo from Pictionary night at my neighbor's house. I took pictures of everyone, but they're not letting me put them up. I'll talk them out of that.

And so it begins...

2010-02-03T12:45:00.000-08:00

Everyday for the next thirty days I, along with my picture story class, will take a photo and post it on my blog. This shouldn't be a challenge since I'm a photographer, but this semester I have been slacking on finding time to shoot everyday and running out of ideas of things to shoot in Columbia, MO. Hopefully this will bring me out of my slump. Today is day one and I was wondering what I could shoot in an hour before work. When I walked in my room I saw all of the empty medicine packages and bottles of cough syrup that got me through my "cold gone wild" this past weekend and thought about how much I spend on these items every time I get sick. It has to be at least $40-$50 once you add in prescriptions. So, I gathered my medicines and tissues and cough drops and this is what I came up with. Crazy....I know.

Shuffle Sequence

2010-01-29T09:11:00.001-08:00

I went to poker night at Memorial union and shot this sequence of MU senior, Matthew Brenner, shuffling the deck.

Photo Sequence

2010-01-25T10:19:00.000-08:00

This photo sequence of Henry Kissinger at the UN was shot by Hugo Estenssoro and won the 1974 World Press Photo sequence category.

Multple light 2

2009-11-19T13:46:00.000-08:00

This is the second picture I chose. I really liked the lines in this picture. There's the shadow lines, the lines on the tiled floor, the lines on the ceiling, etc. I used direct flash on the front of the dancers to create dramatic lighting and I chose a blue gel on the back light to match the dancer's dress.

Multiple Lights 1

2009-11-19T13:43:00.001-08:00

This is the first image I chose. I like this one because of the repetition of the couple on the right of the dancers.

Good Example of Multimedia

2009-11-10T14:18:00.001-08:00

http://mediastorm.com/0015.htm

Color Correction

2009-11-08T09:52:00.001-08:00

We used gels to match the existing light with our strobes.

Painting with light

2009-10-29T13:35:00.001-07:00

Direct single flash

2009-10-22T10:35:00.001-07:00

Here is my example of direct flash.

Single Flash Take 1

2009-10-20T11:21:00.000-07:00

This is from my first take for the single flash assignment. I used the white wall in front of them to bounce my strobe and create a more diffused light.

Metal and Glass

2009-10-13T07:42:00.000-07:00

This is my photo for the metal and glass assignment. I used the plexiglass table with a large softbox behind it then I used a gel on the light underneath the table and large piece of yellow cardboard on the floor to reflect the light. Above is somewhat of a lighting diagram for it.

Lighting Diagram for Portrait of Rob

2009-10-01T13:20:00.001-07:00

2009-10-01T07:58:00.000-07:00

This portrait of Rob Bratney was shot with two lights and a reflector. One light is coming from above and to the right of Rob and the other is coming from the left. This helped me avoid any light reflections in his glasses. and then the reflector was used to make sure there was enough light under the brim of his hat.

2009-09-17T11:17:00.000-07:00

2009-09-16T12:41:00.000-07:00

This is a photo from my meter/white balance exploration.

2009-09-16T12:40:00.000-07:00

This is another photo from National Geographic magazine. This is my stump-the-chump photo.

2009-09-16T12:37:00.000-07:00

This is a picture I found in National Geographic magazine that using soft lighting to portray a fun atmosphere.

My new blog!

2009-08-30T14:29:00.000-07:00

My name is Jessica Cherry and I am taking an advanced techniques in photojournalism class at the University of Missouri this semester. Each new post will be about skills I am learning!